This won’t be Shwedo’s first time in the CIO hot seat. He currently serves as the Air Force’s CIO and chief information dominance officer–positions he’s held since June 2017.

Prior to his current role, Shwedo served as Commander of 25th Air Force at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland where he led 30,000 personnel in “worldwide operations, delivering multisource intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance products, applications, capabilities, and resources.” Shwedo graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1987 with a B.S. in Military History.